{"id":25186,"date":"2026-11-01T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/01\/qatar-lng-carrier-attack-persian-gulf-october-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:01:14","slug":"qatar-lng-carrier-attack-persian-gulf-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/11\/01\/qatar-lng-carrier-attack-persian-gulf-october-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar LNG Carrier Targeted by Unknown Objects in Persian Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier owned by Qatar Gas Transport Company was hit by unidentified objects in the waters of the Persian Gulf on the evening of Friday, October 30, 2026. Despite the incident, no crew members were injured, and no environmental damage occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar Gas Transport Company stated that the ship, named Al Mayeda, remains in a safe condition and operational, although a detailed assessment of potential damages is still ongoing. However, the event highlights increasing insecurity along the region\u2019s vital maritime routes.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the company are in direct contact with the ship\u2019s crew and regional maritime security authorities, closely monitoring developments. This incident comes amid reports of several similar attacks targeting commercial vessels and oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz in recent days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Qatar LNG carrier was struck by unidentified objects in the Persian Gulf; no injuries or environmental damage reported amid rising regional maritime tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}